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Netflix frontrunner to acquire streaming rival Roku: Report

San Francisco: Streaming giant Netflix that is struggling to retain long-term paid subscribers may acquire rival platform Roku, the media reported. According to a report in Insider citing sources, Roku employees have…
Global TWS shipments up 17% in tough market

New Delhi: Led by Apple AirPods, the global TWS (true wireless stereo) shipments grew 17 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) this year to reach 68.2 million units. According to the…

BharatPe sees more high-profile exits after Ashneer Grover saga

New Delhi: After facing the months-long Ashneer Grover saga, fintech platform BharatPe is witnessing some high-profile exits and now, its founding member Satyam Nathani has resigned. Earlier, BharatPe’s chief revenue officer Nishit…
Oracle developing national health records database: Larry Ellison

San Francisco: Cloud major Oracle, which just completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of electronic health records company Cerner, is developing a national health records database. Oracle’s board chairman and chief technology officer…
Half of finance AI projects to be delayed or cancelled by 2024

New Delhi: As the banking and financial institutions adopt artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technologies globally, half of current finance AI deployments will be either delayed or cancelled by 2024, a new report has…
Netflix announces fresh games based on popular TV shows

New Delhi: Popular streaming service Netflix has announced new games for its gaming service that are tied to some of its popular TV shows like ‘The Queens Gambit,’ ‘Shadow and Bone,’ ‘Too…
Subscription-based ‘Telegram Premium’ coming this month, confirms CEO

San Francisco: Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov has confirmed that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. On Friday, Durov spoke about the upcoming…

Apple updates App Store criteria again to meet Dutch govt regulations

San Francisco: Following complaints from the Dutch government that said the company’s actions to allow dating apps to use alternative payment methods on the App Store is ‘insufficient’, tech giant Apple has…
Meta rolling out Horizon Home on Quest 2 VR headset

San Francisco: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset will get Horizon Home as part of a new update. The functionality will help users…
Indian-origin researcher discovers new hardware bug in Apple M1 chip

San Francisco: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including Indian-origin Joseph Ravichandran, have identified a new hardware vulnerability in Apple’s in-house silicon M1 chip that powers Macs. The threat, dubbed…
Global server market revenues to reach $112 bn in 2022

New Delhi: The global server market’s revenue is expected to grow 17 per cent (on-year) to reach $111.7 billion in 2022, according to a new report. From an enterprise perspective, transformation to…
TikTok probing claims of aggressive work culture: Report

London: Short video platform TikTok is reportedly investigating claims of an aggressive work culture after a senior executive at the firm allegedly said he “didn’t believe” in maternity leave. Joshua Ma has…
Pi calculated to 100 tn digits by Google Cloud employee

San Francisco: Tech giant Google’s Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi. In 2019, she was…
Jack Dorsey, Jay-Z partner on Bitcoin educational programme in US

San Francisco: Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday partnered with artist Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, to launch The Bitcoin Academy — an educational initiative in New York.…
Samsung sued for algorithm that predicts remaining battery life on phones: Report

Seoul: South Korean tech giant Samsung has been reportedly sued by a patent troll over the use of an algorithm that predicts the remaining battery life on its Android smartphones. The company…